and yet when i get past my slim screne it just drops me into that blue background with a xterm open and when i mouse over the blue it goes to standard black X indicating that fluxbox never got started.. I typed startfluxbox into the xterm to get the pic. right click menu is still functional you just can't see what you're clicking

ok so i took it out and now I just have the black box for my menu and a black toolbar with a white outline.. nothing readable in either

O and i ran esetroot -scale ~/poppies.jpg and it came back with command not found, couldn't emerge it but i thought it came with eterm, emerged eterm and it completed but it's not in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin and i can't seem to find the executable..

@haxle, this happen to my box too. In the end, it was the fact that the jpeg library was corrupted and needed to be rebuild. It wasn't as easy as just "re-emerging" the libjpeg. There were a couple other items that needed to be rebuild as well. I found a link in the forums under a "libjpeg" search. Hope that helps.

thanks for the tip! I rebuilt everything with libjpeg.so.8 in it and that didn't work and then i moved to libjpeg-turbo, those were really the only posts i found relating to libjpeg that were causing a problem, neither fixed the issue, I did install xfce4 and that works smoothly.. I would still really like to get fluxbox working however, does anyone else have any ideas?